Ribbon-reel.



E. M. GOLDSMITH.

RIBBON REEL.

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Patented June 20, 1916. Y

EDWIN M. GOLDSMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RIBBON-REEL.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 21), 1916.

Application filed July 22, 1914. Serial No. 852,341.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN M. GOLD- SMl'lI-I, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing'at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inRibbon-Reels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

ment for the latters purchase.

In the ordinary ribbon reels, the user, when either winding or unwindingthe ribbon, takes hold of the loose end thereof and accomplishes theresult by a circular move ment of the hand accompanied by tension on theribbon. This is a more or less tedious operation.

The object of my invention is to enable the ribbon to be wound orunwound by nianipulating the reel itself in a simple and convenientmanner, and also to enable the ribbon to be unwound by a straight pullupon the loose end thereof.

In the drawings, which show a preferred embodiment of my inventionFigurel is a perspective view of the reel held in operative position; Fig. 2is a side view of the reel partly broken away; Fig. 3 is a section onthe line 33 of Fig. 2.

The hub a of the reel is cut away circumferentially at its opposite endsto form reduced necks Z), 0. Upon these necks are slipped the heads cl,6, the length of each neck being about equal to the thickness of theheads, whose outer faces are hence substantially flush with the endfaces of the necks. The hub a: may be conveniently made of wood and theheads 65 and e of pasteboard.

The head (i is secured to the hub a by nails or tacks f, which engagethe body of the hub near its periphery and outside the periphery of theneck. To the neck 0 is secured a disk it, which is preferably of metaland comparatively thin and of a diameter greater than that of the neck 0and preferably greater than that of the body of the hub. This disk issecured to the hub by means of screws, nails or tacks g, which extendthrough the disk and the neck of the hub. The disk it does not fit sotightly against the head 6 as to prevent the free turning of the latteron the neck 0. While the head c-is thus the rotatable member of the hub,it is rotatable only in a relative sense, the same being held fixed andthe other members of the reel being rotatable when the same is operatedin the contem plated way. If we assume that a ribbon or tape 00 is woundupon the reel, it will be understood that if the user grasps the head 6in one hand, as shown in Fig. 1, the ribbon may be unwound by graspingthe loose end of the ribbon with the other hand and pulling it outstraight until the desired length of ribbon is unwound, the hub a, headcl and disk 71 revolving in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, as theribbon is unwound; or, if desired, the user may take hold of the head cland by rotating it effect the unwinding of the ribbon. To rewind theribbon, the user, with one hand, again holds the head 6 in a fixedposition and turns the head d in the direction opposite to its directionof rotation in the unwinding operation. If desired, more or less tensionmay be imposed on the ribbon, in the winding operation, by one or twofingers of the hand which holds the head 6.

I am aware that it is known to rotate a reel upon a fixed axis and alsoto provide a bobbin having a head which is normally held in fixedrelation to the remainder of the bobbin but which is removable to allowthe yarn spun thereon to be readily removed without unwinding; but myinvention contemplates neither the rotation of the wheel as a whole, northe maintenance at any time of the head 6 in fixed relation to theremainder of the reel, nor the removal of such head from its hub, butprovides for its free rotatability relative to the hub at all times.Further, the specific construction whereby the fixed head and rotatablehead are provided enables the reel to be constructed so inexpensivelythat it may be sold with the ribbon thereon as cheaply as a ribbon woundon the ordinary plain reel, thus promoting the sale of the ribbon.

- The invention finds its most useful application as applied to a reelwhose diameter is great relatively to its axial length and which is thusadapted to hold a considerable length or comparatively narrow ribbon. It

' i will be observed, also, that the axial dimension of the Wheel isgreater than that of an ordinary plain reel only by the thickness of thedisk 0, which is absolutely negligible.

There are therefore no projecting parts and the reels may beeconomically packed for shipment or storage.

Having now fully described my invention, What I claim and desire to'protect by Letters Patent is:

A reel comprising a hub and similar reduced necks at oppositeendsthereof, similar heads having central orifices by means of whichthey are assembled on the respective necks, a disk of greater diameterthan the hub applied to and overlying the end face of one of the necksand allording with said neck and hub a bearing in which one of the headsturns, the last named head being of a thickness not exceeding the lengthof the corresponding neck, retaining devices spaced from the center ofthe hub and securing the disk fixedly to said neck, and retainingdevices extending through the other head adjacent to the central orificeand into the hub. In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto setmy hand, at Philadelphia, on this 21st day of July, 1914.

EDWIN M. GOLDSMITH. Witnesses:

lVIAX N. AARON, J. C. WILLIAMS.

Copiesof'this patent-may be obtained'for fivecents each, by addressing.the"0ommissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0."

